Race for the Phonograph Crown at Flying Heart Ranch
J Wallingford Speed wins a dramatic foot race against Skinner the Centipede runner to recover the Echo Phonograph, with Helen Blake and J Wallingford Speed forming a romantic frontier amid ranch banter and trainig antics. Larry Glass staggers yet claims victory after a wild chase ending in Albuquerque.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Centipede
Flying Heart
J. Wallingford Speed
Yale
Culver Covington
Helen Blake
Speed
Dean Chapin
Covington
Helen
Larry Glass
Wally
Fresno
Stanford University
Glass
Willie
Omaha
Skinner
Lawrence Glass
Larry
Echo Phonograph
New York
Paris
Mariedetta
J. Wallingford
Gallagher
Albuquerque
Miss Blake
Mr. Skinner
Speed’s Victory Sparks Feud and Wedding Gift Tangle
In a chaotic scene around the Echo Phonograph a celebratory moment ends with Wally Speed injured and Gallagher bitterly dismissive of Skinner. A gang leader hands Helen banknotes and Berkeley Fresno offers a wedding gift as Speed’s fate shifts with a rough crowd and awaiting meal.
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Stover
Wally
Skinner
Gallagher
Helen
Berkeley Fresno
Mr. Speed
Speed
Chicken dinner joke with Ebenezer White and Green
Congressman Henry Allen Cooper recalls a Maryland chicken dinner hosted by Ebenezer White. George Washington Green, deacon of White's church, jokes about keeping chickens while White carves. Green asks if White keeps a next Go neighbor's chickens. White replies he tries hard to keep them.
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Henry Allen Cooper
Maryland
Ebenezer White
George Washington Green
Grace
White
Deacon Green
Not an Occasion for Mirth in a Goat Driven Carriage
A crowded city street scene unfolds as a driver battles to control a goat aboard a speeding carriage. Onlookers mock the risky ride, while a hidden tragedy awaits near Washington Square where a young mother lies dead and a sickening scent is mentioned.
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Washington Square
Fragmentary Scene Cited With Onlookers Disputed Dignity
A blurred recollection describes a man with a queer passenger presenting a picture while a nanny and bystanders challenge or violate his dignity, detailing a tense moment observed by witnesses.
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Nanny
Down the Scale of Love in a Bride’s Compliments
A bride largely extols her husband with layered chocolate cake metaphors. When her mother visits, the bride grows peevish and cannot answer with praise, finally admitting the husband rates as dog biscuits, a humorous domestic moment from National Monthly.
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National Monthly
Lydia E. Pinkham Campaign of Female Health Promises Relief
A Baltimore reader testifies that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her dreadful pains and irregularities, noting six months without medicine and improved health. The ad boasts the remedy as plant based with no narcotics and invites women to write for confidential advice.
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Baltimore
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augusta W. Konodner
Hollins Street
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Hibbing and Hibbing area poised for relocation on ore bank
A vast five hundred foot deep ore field under Stuntz township near Hibbing and Chisholm holds an estimated one billion dollars in value. The city must move to a new base as mines expand toward the limits, with property owners to receive damages and a rebuilt Hibbing arising near the ore body. An expert notes the irony of knowledge and certainty.
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Minnesota
Stuntz
Hibbing
Chisholm
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Holy City
Silas
Fifth Avenue
Jack Chapin
REX Beach
Paul Armstrong
Eogar Ber Smith
Harper & Brothe
Papa
Leonard
Minnesota City
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